The Yellow Wallpaper - Brossura

Perkins Gilman, Charlotte

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0860682013 ISBN 13: 9780860682011

Casa editrice: Virago, 1981

Riassunto

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrenched this small literary masterpiece from her own experience. Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child. Isolated in a colonial mansion in the middle of nowhere, forced to sleep in an attic nursery with barred windows and sickly yellow wallpaper, secretly she does what she has to do - she writes. She craves intellectual stimulation, activity, loving understanding, instead she is ordered to her bedroom to rest and 'pull herself together'. Here, slowly but surely, the tortuous pattern of the wallpaper winds its way into the recesses of her mind...

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

First published in 1892, this perfect novel portrays with chilling power the powerlessness of women within Victorian marriage.

L'autore:

Charlotte Anna Perkins (1860-1935) married at the age of twenty-four, but three years later separated from her husband. She was a writer of non-fiction and poetry, an editor, feminist theorist, and most of her work is about the status and oppression of women. She married again in 1900 but committed suicide a year after her husband died of inoperable cancer.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Virago
• Data di pubblicazione: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0860682013
• ISBN 13: 9780860682011
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 64